nascar's instability is felt even at the developmental level. The big heads down in Daytona Beach have decided it best to ultimately cancel the upcoming K&N series race at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on June 15th due to a severe lack of entries. From what I understand and have heard, only 7-9 entries have committed to the June 15th Thompson weekend.
Headquarters published a scant press release on the matter today.
As a result, the scheduled support (and weekly) series that will be in attendance will take up the slack, including the American Canadian Tour Late Model Series, which will replace the K&N series as the main attraction.
It is very saddening to see how far the K&N Thompson events and the K&N series in general have fallen over the past decade. In fact, I was in attendance at the 2018 K&N Thompson race and the series garnered only 14 confirmed entires, 13 of which ended up taking the green flag. What's more, the K&N East series's crown jewel event at NHMS late last year (which I was also in attendance) only managed to get 17 entries. Keep in mind NHMS used to be the biggest draw for the K&N development drivers and the biggest payout (obviously).
Long gone are the days of a surplus of development drivers and well established Busch North veterans making for a wholesomely enjoyable series overall. Case and point, the 2012 G-Oil 100 (which I was also in attendance) is one that immediately sticks out to me as one of the greater K&N (Camping World East Series at that time) races post 2010, take note that there were 36 starters for this race -https://youtu.be/3LNYwUblaMQ?t=208.
Everyone knows by now that nascar is struggling immensely, but it this is the first time that I have seen circumstances reach the point where the series is left with no choice but to cancel an official nascar weekend because of an acute lack of interest.